VOLCANO MADNESS: Re: [Geology2] Re: Re-Visiting California's Original Rock Star

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Re: [Geology2] Re: Re-Visiting California's Original Rock Star

Ah Chuck!

Thank you for the enlightenment. With each remake, they are making progress in approaching Arkansas. The next one, I hope, will make it all the way to the backside of the Ouachitas and all will be well in my world. :-) I liked the new one solely on literary likeness, but when I watch True Grit again, it will be because the Duke is in it.

Lin

PS The new version also had a cgi rattler that I did not take kindly to, either. Aside from that, the snake never ever looked like a native prairie rattler. Heck, most of the time, it looked more like a legless lizard. At least in the first one, we got very close to the real species of rattlesnake for the given area. Tsk. The girl losing part of her arm was more likely to happen, given the remoteness of the location from civilization, which I liked in a realistic sort of way.

On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 3:33 PM, ChuckB <gumboyaya@cox.net> wrote:

Lin,

You wrote:

Adding to Kim's eloquent prose, I must interject sadly that the original was not shot on location. Western Arkansas looked remarkably like Colorado. Aspens in Yell County? Nope. Don't think so.

The 1969 version was shot in Colorado and the Sierra Nevada, while the 2010 was in Sante Fe, New Mexico and parts of Texas. The story had them heading west into "Indian Territory," now Oklahoma. That's where the real rattlesnake cave is supposed to be, near Davis. No aspens around there, either.

There was also a real Judge Parker (the Hanging Judge) in Fort Smith, who died in 1896. His gallows were burned a year later.

I too liked both the original and the remake, in spite of the geological inaccuracies.

Chuck